#age

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ↗

— Robert Henri

#conventions #did #established #fall #help

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. ↗

— Buck Henry

#language #least #need #president #who

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine. ↗

— Sidney Hillman

#benefits #claim #employer #even #function

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#before #i #leave #life #me

I like vintage a lot. ↗

— Kesha

#like #lot #vintage

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of. ↗

— Tom Holt

#few #grow #habits #i #managed

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal. ↗

— Holly Hunter

#course #doing #end #full #i

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. ↗

— King Hussein I

#east #fact #just #middle #middle east